Artefacts from the Wood Quay excavations are also displayed at the archaeology and history branch of the National Museum of Ireland.

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French police have detained a woman accused of defacing an iconic Delacroix painting, Liberty Leading The People, at a branch of the Louvre Museum.

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The task of assessing American design's place in the world, and in everyday life, went more or less by default to the Cooper-Hewitt museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, located in what had been Andrew Carnegie's mansion on Fifth Avenue.

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The project in question is a plan to build an entire cultural district in Abu Dhabi, including a futuristic arts center and a branch of France's Louvre Museum that will consist of a huge, white dome riddled with skylights over a network of man-made islands on the edge of the Persian Gulf.

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Aidan Dwyer won the Young Naturalist Award from the American Museum of Natural History after studying tree branch patterns during hikes through the forests of the Catskill Mountains.

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The scattershot approach of "Changing Hands, " Biennial-like in displaying only one or a few works by each artist, is counterbalanced by "We Are Here, " now on view at the National Museum of the American Indian's Manhattan branch.

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Later, the orphaned facade of Martin Thompson's 1824 Branch Bank of the U.S. was moved from Wall Street and attached to the back of the museum, where it had a forlorn service-yard look until it was enclosed by the Engelhard Court.

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